Ján Lašák

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Ján Lašák
Date of birth April 10, 1979
place of birth Zvolen , Czechoslovakia
size 184 cm
Weight 92 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 29
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 2nd round, 65th position
Nashville Predators
Career stations
until 1999 HKm Zvolen
1999-2000 Hampton Roads Admirals
2000-2003 Milwaukee Admirals
2003-2004 SKA Saint Petersburg
2004-2009 HC Pardubice
2009-2010 HC Košice
Atlant Mytishchi
2010-2011 Jokerite
2011–2012 Amur Khabarovsk
2013 HK Spartak Moscow
2013-2014 HC Dukla Trenčín
2014-2017 Bílí Tygři Liberec

Ján Lašák (born April 10, 1979 in Zvolen , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey goalkeeper who played for many years with the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League , with HC Pardubice and the Bílí Tygři Liberec from the Czech Extraliga and the SKA Saint Petersburg , Atlant Mytishchi and Amur Khabarovsk was active in Russia. With the Slovak national team , he won a total of three World Cup medals. Today Lašák works as a goalkeeping coach.

Career

Lašák began his career in the junior teams of HKm Zvolen , for which he made his debut in the extra league in the 1998/99 season . During the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 he was selected by the Nashville Predators in the second round in a total of 65th place and moved to North America a short time later. The Predators first sent him to the East Coast Hockey League to the Hampton Roads Admirals , who were then acting as the NHL club's farm team . In the 1999/2000 season of the ECHL Lašák shone and won several league awards. Among other things, he was voted goalkeeper of the year and rookie of the year .

After this success, Ján Lašák moved within the Predators franchise to the Milwaukee Admirals , for whom he played until 2003. During this time he came to a total of six appearances in the NHL for the Predators, but could not prevail against the other goalkeepers of the franchise. Therefore, he moved to SKA Saint Petersburg in the Russian Super League during the 2003/04 season . In the summer of 2004 he decided to change clubs again and signed a contract with the Czech first division club HC Moeller Pardubice. In his first season there he was able to win the Czech championship with his new team and was voted Player of the Year .

From the 2009/10 season Lašák was under contract with HC Košice and was loaned to Atlant Mytishchi from the Continental Hockey League for a month in December 2009 . This loan was later extended until the end of the season. In June 2010 Lašák received a new one-year contract with Atlant, which was terminated in September. As a result, he was unemployed before Jokerit from the Finnish SM-liiga hired him in November of the same year. With Jokerit he reached the playoff quarter-finals, in which his team was defeated by the eventual champions and local rivals HIFK Helsinki .

In April 2011, Lašák was signed by Amur Khabarovsk from the Continental Hockey League . In November 2012 he was released from his contract after the engagement of Alexei Kuznetsov and signed by HK Spartak Moscow in January 2013 . For Spartak he completed 18 KHL games by the end of the season, but then left the club. In September 2013 he received a short-term contract with HC Dukla Trenčín from the Slovak Extra League .

Between January 2014 and the end of the 2016/17 season, Lašák was under contract with the Bílí Tygři Liberec from the Czech Extraliga . During this time he won the championship and the runner- up with the White Tigers . He was also named the best goalkeeper in the Extraliga in 2016. In 2017 he ended his career and became a goalkeeping coach in the youth field and for the Slovak national team.

In 2018 he took part as a trainer at the Winter Olympics and the World Championship .

International

In addition to his success at club level, Ján Lašák was also regularly used in international championships. With the junior selection of Slovakia , he took part in the U20 World Championships in 1999 . A year later he was appointed to the Slovak men's selection and was used at the 2000 World Cup , where he won the silver medal. In the following years he took part in almost all world championships and was so 2002 gold and 2003 bronze medal win. At the 2011 World Cup he was part of the World Cup squad for the last time, but was not used.

It was also used at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics . He made a total of 83 international matches for Slovakia.

Achievements and Awards

International

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b hockeygoalies.org, Ján Lašák
  2. ↑ liiga.fi, January Lasak Jokereiden riveihin
  3. ↑ Jonáš Majtyka: Ján Lašák oficiálně ukončil hokejovou kariéru. In: hcbilitygri.cz. August 18, 2017, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Author :: Osobnosti: Ján Lašák. In: hkmzvolen.sk. October 24, 2017, accessed December 3, 2018 (Slovak).
personal data
SURNAME Lašák, Ján
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasak, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Zvolen , Czechoslovakia